http://www.icrard.org/ http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____497.aspx On July 29, 2010 www.xprize.org ) launched its sixth major competition... $1.4 Million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE,... inspire entrepreneurs... Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE Phase I. . Phase II US National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility... New Jersey 2010-09-05 05:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____495.aspx The purpose of this report is to examine conditions relevant to evacuation and rescue of personnel from facilities operating in the Barents Sea. By Ole-Johan Faret, PSA Norway 2010-07-01 11:44 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____490.aspx A new status report initiated by the PSA Norway shows how the harsh northern climate influences health and working environment and how the new challenges can be handled. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-06-18 03:39 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____489.aspx Follow the link below or copy and paste it into your browser... http://www.ohmsett.com/ohmsett/Ohmsett%20Gazette%20SpringSummer%202010.pdf... Here’s what is featured this issue: Nameplate Capacity Testing of Two Skimmer Systems During the week of December 7-18... Standard Test Method for Determining Nameplate Recovery Rate of Stationary... Chemical Herding Agents to Thicken Slicks... Ottawa 2010-06-08 03:05 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____488.aspx In this brochure you can read about some of the exiting projects in the PETROMAKS portfolio. By Ole-johan Faret, PSA Norway 2010-05-28 12:52 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____486.aspx Welcome to the Spring edition of our Science and Research Outlook (SRO)click here Our articles in this edition cover a wide selection... subscription to SRO feedback Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____485.aspx Over the past few years, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out a project regarding fire protection. The project report is now completed. By Ole-Johan Faret, E-mail: ole-johan.faret@ptil.no 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____484.aspx Personnel in the Norwegian petroleum sector regard the climate for health, safety and the environment as more positive than it was two years ago. But a marked increase in the number of gas leaks during 2009 shows that the industry must take new steps. By Ole-Johan Faret, E-mail: ole-johan.faret@ptil.no 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____483.aspx On April 9, 2010, C-NLOPB posted a safety notice on the capacity... http://www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/cnlopbsn/sn_evac.pdf... C-NLOPB 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____482.aspx Studies Focus on Technology... WASHINGTON , DC– The Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service... “We still have much to learn about offshore renewable energy activities”... Initial findings from one of the studies... Seattle Washington Additional MMS-funded research includes:... • A study that is examining the structural design characteristics... —MMS— Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____481.aspx MMS OCEAN SCIENCEis published quarterly by the Minerals Management Service... Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: startIndex Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____480.aspx The U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service... http://www.mms.gov/tarprojectcategories/RenewableEnergy.htm... . Interested parties are encouraged to view the information presented... BACKGROUND:The MMS TA&R Program is requesting white papers to be submitted... OBJECTIVES: The topics for the FY 2011 renewable energy research... 1. 2. Floating Wind Turbines 3. 4. 5. MUST Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____479.aspx The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently published... In the first report, the authors, Greenstreet Berman Ltd consider... The authors report a desire from both HSE and industry... • Developing training • Providing practical guidance • Partnership... The second report from Oxford University details the offshore working... Publication details: Contact: rob.miles@hse.gsi.gov.uk Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____478.aspx The C-NLOPB received some early recommendations from Commissioner Robert... The recommendations and the Board’s directions to operators are contained in... http://www.cnlopb.nl.ca/news/nr20100212.shtml... Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____477.aspx The Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry was established... Information on the inquiry is found in http://www.oshsi.nl.ca/ C-NLOPB 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____476.aspx Extreme water levels Extreme water level is the total level of the water arising from the wave crest... Fixed offshore installations must be capable of withstanding the applied... The three interrelated reports address important aspects of determining... • RR739 – A comparison of ISO compliant techniques against raw data • RR740... An important observation of the work is that the existing... Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____475.aspx A new status report summarises the knowledge available on bonded flexible pipes. Ole-Johan Faret, PSA Norway 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____474.aspx The safety culture of a facility affects the number of hydrocarbon leaks as well as the noise level. By Ole-Johan Faret, PSA Norway 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____473.aspx Minutes of the twelfth ICRARD Meeting includes links to members’ presentations of their national research programmes. Three special topics were presented at the meeting: Aging installations, freefall lifeboats and Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Guide. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____472.aspx Welcome to the 15th issue of the HSE Science and Research Outlook (SRO)... http://www.hsesro.com/PublicPages/Newsletter.aspx... Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____471.aspx The US Minerals Management Service (MMS) has compiled a report that provides... The program directly supports MMS missions of ensuring... From 1997 through 2008 the MMS has successfully developed... Rather than working independently... As a product of these partnerships... The OSRR projects highlighted in the document are examples... Completed projects can be found at In Situ Burn Resea Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____470.aspx http://www.ohmsett.com/OHMSETT/Ohmsett%20Gazette%20Spring-Summer%202009.pdf... Here’s what is featured this month: Skimmer Tested to the New ASTM Protocol at OHMSETT... Evaluation of the CRUCIAL redesigned prototype skimmer head continued... Click to continue . Herding Agents Used to Thicken Oil Slicks in Broken Ice... The Minerals Management Service (MMS) funded a two- week test series... . Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____469.aspx Ohmsett – The US National Oil Spill Response Test Facility... United States Norway Panama United KingdomInstruction was provided by leading dispersant experts Ken Trudel... Ottawa CanadaOn the first day students spent the morning in the classroom... “The focus of this training was dispersant operations and effectiveness at sea... U.S. Recently tasked with oversight of the Gulf of Mexico Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____468.aspx Minutes of the Eleventh ICRARD meeting held at the Ohmsett Facility... New Jersey Present: Oyvind Tuntland Norway (Chairman) Steve Walker Executive UK Walter Bobby Canada Sharon Buffington USA Eirik Bjerkebaek Matthew Quinney USA 1. Sharon Buffington welcomed delegates to ICRARD’s eleventh meeting... 2. Apologies for absence Apologies had been tendered by Jos Marx... Netherlands Australia 3. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____467.aspx Welcome to the 14th issue of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)... Science and Research Outlook Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____466.aspx The UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) maintains a Hydrocarbon Releases... UKLeak reduction and installation integrity campaigns... HSE therefore commissioned the Health & Safety Laboratory... http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr672.pdf... Key findings from the report include: · Gas HCRs are the most common. · Older installations (>20 years old) experience most releases... · · · · · · · Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____465.aspx Welcome to the 13th issue of SRO ( click here to enter the site www.hsesro.com/Register.aspx Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____464.aspx A significant and steadily increasing number of offshore installations in the UK sector of the North Sea are approaching or have exceeded their original anticipated design life. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____463.aspx On July 16, 2008, MMS Technology Assessment and Research (TA&R) Program... The site can also be reached at http://www.FedBizOpps.gov/ Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____462.aspx Welcome to the 12th issue of SRO ( click here to enter the site www.hsesro.com/Register.aspx Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____461.aspx O hmsett, The US National Oil Spill Response Test Facility, in partnership with... Texas A&M University National Spill Control School Oil Spill Response and Strategies Training on August 11-15... Leonardo NJ USA During the five-day course... The program also incorporates NIMS Incident Command System training... Upon completion, students will receive FEMA ICS-100 certification and the... . Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____460.aspx On May 21, 2008, MMS Technology Assessment and Research (TA&R) Program... . This and future research announcements can be found at the MMS webpage for... Submitting Research Proposals and at the main website http://www.FedBizOpps.gov/ . Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____459.aspx IO 08 Science and Practice – the technologies to integrate people and work processes. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____458.aspx On 2-6 August 2009, the 19th international symposium on shiftwork and working time will take place in Venezia, Italy. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____457.aspx Management of the risk of collisions between vessels which are either passing... UK North Sea An overview of the latest technologies being employed within the... UK UK The report:(i) Discusses the effects of recent offshore practices... (ii) Provides an overview of several recent developments... The work was jointly funded by Oil and Gas... UK ( George.boothby@hse.gsi.gov.uk ) and the . Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____456.aspx SINTEF petroleum research (SINTEF) has on contract for the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) prepared a report on the safeguarding of well integrity in connection with CO2 injection. The report can be downloaded from the PSA website. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____455.aspx Welcome to the 11th issue of SRO ( click here to enter the site sro@hse.gsi.gov.uk Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____454.aspx The UK Health and Safety Executive’s Offshore Division is currently sponsoring three further projects in meteorological and oceanographic (metocean) matters aimed at ensuring that its Extreme Weather Technical Policy is kept up to date. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____453.aspx Minutes of the 2007 ICRARD Meeting includes link to member presentations of the national research programmes. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____452.aspx MMS Ocean Scienceis a quarterly journal highlighting the science and technology... Environmental Studies Program, the MMS has funded research into the marine environments... Alaska Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____450.aspx The R&D strategy in the area of health, safety and environment is the result of the Research Council of Norway’s strategic process for R&D work in the period 2007 – 2011. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____448.aspx Welcome to the August edition ( www.hsesro.com/ Montreal Quebec Canada If you would like to submit an article with a Health and Safety theme... sro@hse.gsi.gov.uk). We are also very pleased to announce that the SCI who have successfully... Science and Research Outlook (SRO) is an on-line interactive... The August edition lists a selection of recently completed... Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____447.aspx The use of various forms of advanced technologies and information... The objective of the paper is to describe such an ongoing... Link to the key note paper (pdf) Contact person in the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway: E-mail:... Eirik.Bjerkebak@ptil.no Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____449.aspx The programme board in PETROMAKS gave 8 new projects funding for research in the thematic area of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____446.aspx The March edition of the SRO newsletter covers a range of subjects, including an overview of offshore collisions, information on an offshore manual incidents database, work-related stress and a selection of recently completed HSE research projects. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____445.aspx Minutes of the 2006 ICRARD Meeting includes link to member presentations of the national research programmes. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____444.aspx This SRO newsletter covers a range of subjects, including seal damage in the Oil and Gas Industry, ringing of Concrete Gravity Based Offshore Structures, improving the integrity of floating production systems moorings and effective sickness management. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____443.aspx This SRO edition contains information on a new guidance on managing shift work and a related article includes a link to a valuable tool for assessing relative levels of fatigue associated with different shift patterns. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____442.aspx The March edition of the Science and Research Outlook (SRO) contains information on health effects of diving at work and HPHT Reservoir Developments Offshore. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____440.aspx Principal Engineer Gerhard Ersdal of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has defended his thesis on extending the life of existing offshore structures in pursuit of a doctorate of engineering degree from the University of Stavanger. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____441.aspx Science and Research Outlook (SRO) is an on-line newsletter detailing the comprehensiveness of HSE's science and engineering activities. This edition includes information on Fire and Explosion Protection for Offshore Piping Systems. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____439.aspx The SSM hopes that the findings and conclusions in this report will provide starting points for discussions between employers and employees, with a view to implementing measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of employees at work. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____438.aspx Science and Research Outlook (SRO) is an on-line newsletter detailing the comprehensiveness of HSE's science and engineering activities. This edition includes information on the new Health & Safety Commissioners (HSC) Science Strategy for 2005 – 2008. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____437.aspx These environmental reports are available in English on... the OLF’s web siteRisk assessment of reproductive effects of alkyl phenols in produced... Fact sheet from OLF - Seismic surveys and fish... Fact sheet from OLF - Co-existence Fact sheet from OLF - Zero discharges Cutting Piles - Area contaminated with THC... Guidelines for characterisation of offshore drill cuttings piles... Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____436.aspx Gale Norton, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, USA, mentioned the launching of the ICRARD web site in 2004 as an example of successful international cooperation between petroleum regulators. By Ole-Johan Faret, PSA Norway (ole-johan.faret@ptil.no) 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____435.aspx Science and Research Outlook (SRO) is a quarterly on-line newsletter detailing the breadth of HSE's science and engineering activities. By Kevin Leddy, HSE/UK 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____433.aspx The ICRARD web site was officially launched at the meeting of the International Regulatory Forum (IRF) in Santa Barbara, USA, on 28 October 2004. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____434.aspx Science and Research Outlook (SRO) is a new quarterly on-line newsletter detailing the breadth of HSE's science and engineering activities. Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____451.aspx Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25 http://www.icrard.org/templates/Page____432.aspx The eighth meeting in the ICRARD forum will be in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada on March 17 2004 Ole-Johan Faret 2010-05-26 01:25